MACHU PICCHU
IS "DISCOVERED"
July 24, 1911: Yale History lecturer HIRAM BINGHAM III "climbed a
2,000-foot-tall slope and encountered an abandoned stone city of which
no record existed," writes Mark Adams.
(Notice: Adams carefully writes "encountered," and not discovered.)
This year, the centenary, one million visitors are expected.
Mark Adams's long article in the New York Times (he has also written a
book, TURN RIGHT AT MACHU PICCHU, which I have not yet read),
is here.
Christopher Reynolds, who has been to Machu Picchu three times since
1988, has another perspective in a piece in the Los Angeles Times, here.
For some information on the official, Peruvian, celebration, held earlier
this month, see here.
To see some of my other photographs of Machu Picchu please go to
the LABELS row at the bottom of this posting, or use your find
function ("Machu Picchu"), and for more "Peru Scenes," see here.
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